Mike Royko

The outburst of Barney hating by computer addicts on the Internet appears to be a far more serious matter than I had originally thought. It was a mistake to assume...

The man across the counter in the coffee shop politely said: "Excuse me, but I'd like to chat with you about names and sensitivity." I hope your name isn't John....

If you think about it, one of the easiest things a male can do is become a biological father. By the time we're 12 years old, most of us are...

At first glance, it seems like a terrible abuse of legal power-a man sent to prison for 25 years to life for stealing one slice of pizza. Yes, only one...

This hasn't been a very good week for those who believe that there is something sacred about the American jury system. In the O.J. Simpson trial, another juror has been...

It took all of 10 seconds as a candidate for president for Lamar Alexander to lose any chance of ever getting my vote. Even if he proves to be a...

Several computer buffs contacted me recently to pass along some ominous information. As one of them explained it: "Those people you wrote about, the ones on the Internet who hate...

While walking through the video store, the 7-year-old boy stopped and gawked at a display of movie tapes. "Wow," he said, "what are those?" His father said: "Never mind. You...

There is startling new evidence that many of the computer enthusiasts who surf the information highway are really very sick people. I'm not talking about the sexual cybercreeps who go...